Synonym extraction of medical terms from clinical text using combinations of word space models

SMBM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 10-17

  Henriksson, Aron ^a   Moen, Hans ^b   Skeppstedt, Maria ^a   Eklund, Ann Marie ^c   Daudaravičius, Vidas ^d   Hassel, Martin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LARGE CORPORA; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; MEDICAL TERMS; RANDOM INDEXING; RANDOM PERMUTATIONS; SEMANTIC CONTENT; WORD SPACES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84874243708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-64476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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